OpenWRT packages: http://bartekk.pdg.pl/openwrt/

http://forum.nas-central.org/viewtopic.php?f=249&t=5145

http://eko.one.pl/?p=openwrt-nsa310

https://sites.google.com/site/realblades/misc/debian-on-zyxel-nsa310

http://linuxwiki.de/ZYXEL%20NSA-310#Debian_Installation

http://openrouter.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1581&start=80

First install Debian 6 (squeeze). Put on FAT formatted pendrive: initrd.gz uImage-3.2 uImage-3.5.1

then boot from pendrive (one time, without saving it permanently to u-boot environment) Machine type is 4022

    setenv arcNumber 4022
    setenv mainlineLinux yes
    usb start
    fatload usb 0 0x800000 /uImage-3.2
    fatload usb 0 0xb00000 /initrd.gz
    setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/ram initrd=0xb00000,0x900000 ramdisk=32768'
    bootm 0x800000

and install Debian 6 system as usual. Installer will complain about no matching modules and no matching kernel. During installation, create small /boot ext3 partition for kernels.

To boot from HDD, copy uImage-3.2 from pendrive to HDD /boot partition and set u-boot:

From u-boot console, test partitions readability:

ide reset
ide part
ext2ls ide 0:1
ext2ls ide 0:3

In my example I got following partitions numbers:

Partition Map for IDE device 0  --   Partition Type: DOS

Partition     Start Sector     Num Sectors     Type
    1               309248        19222528      83
    2             19533822       957237250       5 Extd
    3                 2048          307200      83

Where 3rd partition is small /boot partition, so we need to load kernel from 'ide 0:3'

    setenv arcNumber 4022
    setenv mainlineLinux yes
    setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/sda1' 
    setenv bootcmd 'ide reset; ext2load ide 0:3 0x800000 /uImage-3.2; bootm 0x800000'
    saveenv
    reset

or 3.5.1 kernel:

    setenv bootcmd 'ide reset; ext2load ide 0:3 0x800000 /uImage-3.5.1; bootm 0x800000'

Put following sources into /etc/apt/sources.list

###### Debian Main Repos
deb http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free

###### Debian Update Repos
deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-proposed-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-proposed-updates main contrib non-free

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

apt-get install linux-base firmware-realtek
apt-get clean

Install missing packages:

apt-get install uboot-envtools smartmontools strace watchdog hdparm

mkdir /lib/modules/3.5.1
depmod -a

To turn ON System LED (disable blinking) please add line to /etc/rc.local:

echo 1 > /sys/class/leds/nsa310:green:System/brightness

Create /etc/fw_env.config with content:

/dev/mtd1               0x0000          0x20000         0x20000                 4

After bootup, ethernet controller has MAC address '00:00:00:00:00:30'. There are several method to restore correct MAC address which can be obtained from u-boot env: 1) add to /etc/rc.local

ifdown eth0
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 hw ether `fw_printenv -n ethaddr`
ifup eth0

or

/sbin/ip link set eth0 address `/usr/bin/fw_printenv ethaddr | /bin/grep -E -o '[[:xdigit:]]{2}(:[[:xdigit:]]{2}){5}'`

2) add line to /etc/network/interfaces

hwaddress ether cc:5d:4e:c9:fc:06

3) Edit and set MAC here: /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

Wake-on-lan will work only with fake MAC '00:00:00:00:00:30'

Add these lines in /etc/sysctl.conf:

# Set VM min memory
vm.min_free_kbytes=8192

Ref: http://masu.6f.sk/index.php?title=Nsa310_buttons Button works, but requires long pressing > 1sec.

Detect PWM devices and calibrate fan RPMs using 'pwmconfig'. After many questions an tests the config file /etc/fancontrol will be generated.

# Configuration file generated by pwmconfig, changes will be lost
INTERVAL=10
DEVPATH=hwmon0=devices/platform/mv64xxx_i2c.0/i2c-0/0-002e
DEVNAME=hwmon0=lm85
FCTEMPS=hwmon0/device/pwm1=hwmon0/device/temp3_input
FCFANS= hwmon0/device/pwm1=hwmon0/device/fan1_input
MINTEMP=hwmon0/device/pwm1=35
MAXTEMP=hwmon0/device/pwm1=60
MINSTART=hwmon0/device/pwm1=16
MINSTOP=hwmon0/device/pwm1=16
MINPWM=hwmon0/device/pwm1=0

• LM-Sensors are working. You can check values using command 'sensors'
• HDD temperature: smartctl -A /dev/sda | awk '/^194/ {print $10}'
• Should be possible to wake NSA310 (powered off by 'halt' command) sending Wake-On-Lan packet to NSA310 'wakeonlan 00:00:00:00:00:30'

There's no need to keep pestering the poor guy over simple config changes. It's easy to build your own kernel; the instructions are right there in the first post. On a debian host you need to add the emdebian repo and install gcc-4.7-arm-linux-gnueabi (or whatever version) and u-boot-tools to build the kernel.

I just built one with device mapper and crypto target support, and threw in netfilter NAT stuff for giggles.

Here it is: http://allurgroceries.com/nsa310/uImage-3.5.7 And the .config: http://allurgroceries.com/nsa310/config-3.5.7_nsa310_allurgroceries

Download lastest Jessie rootfs from: Linux Kernel 3.18 (FDT) and 3.16 (non-FDT) Kirkwood package and rootfs

Or locally: linux-3.18.5-kirkwood-tld-1-bodhi.tar.bz2 debian-3.18.5-kirkwood-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2

Unpack rootfs to media, can be USB pendrive for now.

cd /mnt/sdd1
tar -xjf Debian-3.18.5-kirkwood-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2

Inside rootfs, there is /boot directory which contains bootable kernel, initrd and deveice trees. Go to newly unpacked roots directory and create images recognizable by u-boot. If command mkimage is missing, please install u-boot-tools.

This method is supported by old (stock) U-BOOT. In this case FDT structure is appended at end of kernel.

cd /boot
cp -a zImage-3.18.5-kirkwood-tld-1 zImage.fdt
cat dts/kirkwood-nsa310.dtb>> zImage.fdt

mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 -n Linux-3.18.5-kirkwood-tld-1 -d ./zImage.fdt ./uImage-3.18.5
mkimage -A arm -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip -a 0x00000000 -e 0x00000000 -n initramfs-3.18.5-kirkwood-tld-1 -d ./initrd.img-3.18.5-kirkwood-tld-1 ./uInitrd-3.18.5

Test if kernel starts correctly from pendrive:

    usb start
    fatload usb 0 0x800000 /boot/uImage-3.18.5
    fatload usb 0 0x1100000 /boot/uInitrd-3.18.5
    bootm 0x800000 0x1100000

Boot from HDD (separate small /boot partition, so no /boot prefix in filenames):

    ide reset
    ext2load ide 0:3 0x800000 /uImage-3.18.5
    ext2load ide 0:3 0x1100000 /uInitrd-3.18.5
    bootm 0x800000 0x1100000

NOT SUPPORTED BY OLD (default U-BOOT)

cd boot
mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 -n Linux-3.18.5-kirkwood-tld-1 -d ./vmlinuz-3.18.5-kirkwood-tld-1 ./uImage-3.18.5
mkimage -A arm -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip -a 0x00000000 -e 0x00000000 -n initramfs-3.18.5-kirkwood-tld-1 -d ./initrd.img-3.18.5-kirkwood-tld-1 ./uInitrd-3.18.5

Test if kernel starts correctly from pendrive:

    usb start
    fatload usb 0 0x800000 /boot/uImage
    fatload usb 0 0x1100000 /boot/uInitrd
    fatload usb 0 0x1c00000 /boot/dts/kirkwood-nsa310.dtb
    bootm 0x800000 0x1100000 0x1c00000

Boot from HDD (separate small /boot partition, so no /boot prefix in filenames):

    ide reset
    ext2load ide 0:3 0x800000 /uImage-3.18.5
    ext2load ide 0:3 0x1100000 /uInitrd-3.18.5
    ext2load ide 0:3 0x1c00000 /dts/kirkwood-nsa310.dtb
    bootm 0x800000 0x1100000 0x1c00000

There are multiple HW versions of NSA310 on market, but only 2 device tree are defined in kernel:

1. kirkwood-nsa310.dtb - all LEDs are bicolor (red and green), sensors device 'adt7476' on I2C bus
2. kirkwood-nsa310a.dtb - like above but without red USB led, and sensor device 'lm85'

My NSA310 version is like nsa310 but with lm85 :), so I've created kirkwood-nsa310b.dts based on kirkwood-nsa310.dts with LM85 section from kirkwood-nsa310a.dts.

apt-get install emdebian-archive-keyring

Above rootfs contains Jessie system for NSA325. To use it with NSA310 some changes are needed.

Adapt to your country location in /etc/apt/sources.list, and add missing contrib and non-free packages

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get install firmware-realtek fancontrol lm-sensors

RAM disk will be regenerated, so you need to recreate uInitrd-xxx again.

Adapt /etc/rc.local to own needs:

if [ -d /sys/class/leds/nsa310:green:sys ]; then
   echo default-on> /sys/class/leds/nsa310:green:sys/trigger
   echo none      > /sys/class/leds/nsa310:red:sys/trigger
fi

if [ -d /sys/class/leds/nsa310:green:hdd ]; then
   echo ide-disk1> /sys/class/leds/nsa310:green:hdd/trigger
fi

if [ -d /sys/class/leds/nsa310:green:esata ]; then
   echo ide-disk2> /sys/class/leds/nsa310:green:esata/trigger
fi

if [ -d /sys/class/leds/nsa310:green:usb ]; then
   echo usb-host> /sys/class/leds/nsa310\:green\:usb/trigger
fi

• by default busybox-syslogd is installed, with logging to RAM
• mount working dir for samba and dhcp client as tmpfs
• switch Samba to use syslog
• tune system /etc/sysctl.conf
• smartd from smartmontools writes it log and state to /var/lib/smartmontools
  • put it on tmpfs (and lose history)
  • or increase disc check interval in /etc/default/smartmontools

add new line at end of /etc/adjtime

/etc/fw_env.config

/dev/mtd0               0x100000        0x20000         0x20000                 4

linux-headers-3.2.0-4-kirkwood - Header files for Linux 3.2.0-4-kirkwood linux-image-3.2.0-4-kirkwood - Linux 3.2 for Marvell Kirkwood linux-headers-2.6-kirkwood - Header files for Linux kirkwood configuration (dummy package) linux-headers-kirkwood - Header files for Linux kirkwood configuration (meta-package) linux-image-2.6-kirkwood - Linux for Marvell Kirkwood (dummy package) linux-image-kirkwood - Linux for Marvell Kirkwood (meta-package)